40 Habits All Empaths Share

Definition: Empath ~ a person or animal who physically, emotionally, and intuitively feels the emotions, pains, and joys of the people, creatures, and environment around them.

Upside of being an empath: Using the gift of intuitive feeling that comes from unconscious body sensation to anticipate and manage needs of self and others in positive, meaningful ways

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Downside of being an empath: getting lost and confused unable to separate what are their own feelings from the feelings of others around them at home, at work, and in the environment.

40 Habits ALL Empaths Share:

1. Empaths know what they know without knowing how they know it.

2. Empaths act on what they know they know intuitively

3. Trained empaths choose strategies based on understanding what their physical body tells them is about to happen so they can better control their own responses in a healthy way with a more positive, healthy outcome.

5. Empaths often feel like they are the only ones in the world who are “cursed” with feeling ALL they feel

6. Untrained empathic children often create rich inner worlds and seem disconnected from the real world. This is how they protect themselves from the stress they feel from the adults in their lives.

7. Trained empathic children know how to integrate their rich inner fantasy world with their real life

8. Untrained empaths are often exhausted by being around others in stressful situations

9. Trained empaths are excited being part of a group of like-minded empowered people

10. Empaths are often creative thinkers with an imaginative flair, artistic abilities, able to reproduce their feelings through words, thought, deed, or art touching the souls of the people who see, work with, or buy their creations.

11. Empaths feel physical sensations in their bodies and emotion in their minds which precede intellectual meaning being formed

20. Empaths either hide from others choosing to protectively isolate themselves, or on the flip-side become the cheerleaders, leaders (positive and negative) that use their ability to influence (psychically ‘nudge’) others into doing their will (salespeople, politicians, world leaders)

21. Trained empaths understand how, why, and when to use their ability to energetically influence others

22. Empaths experience illnesses which defy diagnosis

23. Trained empaths do not take in energetic vibrations of others that mimic illness in their own body

38. Empaths feel the fear radiating from others as if it changes the air quality in some way, or is a different than usual heartbeat, or is a taste in their mouth, or makes their skin crawl.

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40. Trained empaths consciously recognize physical sensation, as early warning signals something is about to happen and then sort out where those feelings are coming from, and finally consciously choose how they will manage that incoming needy, hostile, fearful energy in a healthy, supportive way